New York Post
Malliotakis takes swing at de Blasio with ‘for sale’ signs stunt

Nov 03, 2017

With voters going to the polls in four days, Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis decided Friday that a single image was the best way to make the point that the de Blasio administration engages in pay-for-play.

So she attached four “For Sale” signs to a gate around City Hall.

“This is the reality of Bill de Blasio’s New York,” said Malliotakis, while hanging the red-and-white signs on the Centre Street side of the building.

“This is a tale of two cities where he, his friends and developers are doing extremely well and making a lot of money, yet the rest of New York continues to struggle.”

Each sign had handwritten, telephone contacts linked to City Hall’s shady dealings.

One of them was “(800) RECHNITZ,” a reference to mayoral donor and confessed briber Jona Rechnitz.

During Wednesday’s mayoral debate, Malliotakis accused de Blasio of “shaking down” donors and said “we need to take the for-sale sign off City Hall.”

On Friday, she called on New Yorkers to elect her so the “for-sale signs” can come down “once and for all.”

Although the actual signs were removed shortly after Malliotakis addressed reporters.